Increasing Heap size

[earamsey]

I read an article, "Secure data files embedded in MIDP applications", about tinyline.com GzipInputStream Utility. In it the author states that he had to increase the size of the applications heap size.

There is a tradeoff for using compression: decompression inevitably increases the application's memory footprint. TinyLine does not publish the additional heap size required by the library, but from my testing, I had to increase my heap size by 35 to 40 KB. A MIDP application that originally runs on Palm Zire (2 MB) now requires 4 MB of RAM to run. This slight increase in memory footprint should not be alarming for most applications and devices, but regression testing is definitely recommended.

Is it possible to do this on a "Nokia E61/Series 60 3rd Edtion" using MIDP?

Thanks!

[hartti]

On S60 phones (at least on the 3rd Edition phones, like E61) the heap size is unlimited (=limited by the available phone memory)

Hartti

[senthil_k]

If you are mentioning about testing in emulator you can increase or decrease the heap size there but not in real device.

[earamsey]

if it is unlimited I wonder why my users are complaining about running out of memory? Is there a reliable way to measure memory usage on Emualtor/Device ? That way, I can max out the application and come up with some minimum Memory Requirements to run the program.

Thanks!